Telling the tale of a Jedi Master and his apprentice’s coming together—and their falling apart, as the latter realizes the cruelty of the Jedi’s penchant for nabbing only the strongest Force-sensitive kids and leaving their families behind in the process—the focus in “Disorder” is the snazzy duel between Malgus and his Jedi foes, but there is a constant undercurrent of the Order’s failings. Not just the emotion of the young Twi’lek Padawan, Sa’har, being given a vision of her brother’s enslavement after the Jedi abandoned him—not even for not being Force sensitive, but simply for not being sensitive enough to be a warrior in the ongoing conflict. There’s even Malgus’ willingness not to kill both the Jedi, instead willing them to open their eyes to how the Order goes about adding to its ranks is only fueling the pain and anger that has lead to their generations-long war with the Sith (who, at this point, Malgus doesn’t particularly care for either). He leaves Sa’har in one piece, not to punish her, but to give her the chance to see things the way he does, and realize that the Jedi’s approach being wrong didn’t stop at her master being kind of a dick.
Of course, all of this is coming from Malgus’ perspective, and Legacy of the Sith is largely going to be about players from either the Republic or Sith Empire side of The Old Republic trying to put a stop to his plans, so it’s not like the game is explicitly supporting his standpoint. But it’s still interesting to see Star Wars media slowly but surely become just as much about critiquing the structure and dogma of institutions like the Jedi Order—at one time the mythologized ideal we and characters like Luke Skywalker were taught to revere and hope to see restored, in all its glory—as much as it is celebrating individual members of that order.
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s new expansion, Legacy of the Sith, is playable now.
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